Facebook and Tencent Data Fit a Cube Law Better than Metcalfe's Law

doi:10.1007/s11390-022-2845-7

	Facebook and Tencent Data Fit a Cube Law Better than Metcalfe's Law
	Zhang, Xing-Zhou 1; Xu, Zhi-Wei
	2023-04-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISSN	1000-9000
卷号	38 期号:2 页码:219-227
摘要	Metcalfe 's law states that the value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users (V & PROP; n(2)), which was validated by actual data of Facebook and Tencent in 2013-2015. Since then, the users and the values of Facebook and Tencent have increased significantly. Is Metcalfe's law still valid? This paper leverages the latest data of Facebook and Tencent to fit the network effect laws and makes the following observations: 1) actual data of network values fit a cube law (V & PROP; n(2)) better than Metcalfe's law; 2) actual data of network costs fit a cube law; 3) actual data of network sizes show a growth trend matching the netoid function well. We also discuss the underlying factors affecting such observations and the generality of the network effect laws.
关键词	network effect Metcalfe's law cube law netoid function
DOI	10.1007/s11390-022-2845-7
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2021M693227]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:001017832400001
出版者	SPRINGER SINGAPORE PTE LTD
引用统计	被引频次：3[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/21304
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Zhang, Xing-Zhou
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Xing-Zhou,Xu, Zhi-Wei. Facebook and Tencent Data Fit a Cube Law Better than Metcalfe's Law[J]. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,2023,38(2):219-227.
APA	Zhang, Xing-Zhou,&Xu, Zhi-Wei.(2023).Facebook and Tencent Data Fit a Cube Law Better than Metcalfe's Law.JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,38(2),219-227.
MLA	Zhang, Xing-Zhou,et al."Facebook and Tencent Data Fit a Cube Law Better than Metcalfe's Law".JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 38.2(2023):219-227.